Biography Category
(h r´män h n´r kh gô´s n) (KEY) , 1810–58, German economist, little known in his lifetime. His work, Entwicklung der Gesetze des menschlichen V...
d. A.D. 64? or 67?, the apostle to the Gentiles, b. Tarsus, Asia Minor. He was a Jew. His father was a Roman citizen, probably of some means, and Paul...
(oig n´ böm´-bä´v rk) (KEY) , 1851–1914, Austrian economist. Three times minister of finance (1895, 1897, and 1900), he initiated important tax...
(d pô´) (KEY) , 1822–87, American manufacturer, b. Salem, Ind. At first successful at banking, he later established a plate-glass works at New Alb...
(d v n´ ) (KEY) , 1828–1914, American printer, b. Stamford, Conn. He learned his trade in the office of the Newburgh (N.Y.) Gazette and in 1848 en...
(l ôn d´ mäs n´) (KEY) , 1896–1979, American choreographer and ballet dancer, b. Russia. Massine attended the Imperial Ballet School, St. Peters...